Double-line striper.



H. B. KING.

DOUBLE LINE STRIPER.

APPLICATION rum) MAY 18. 1011.

1,004,438, Patented Sept. 26, 1911.

WITNESSES INVENTOR wn/L W ATTORNEYS COLUMBIA PLANOGHAPII cm. WASHINGTON, n c.

HOWARD ERNEST KING, OF SOMERVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

DOUBLE-LINE STRIPER.

Specification of Letters latent.

Application filed May 18, 1911.

Patented Sept. 26, 1911.

Serial No. 627,913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HowAm) E. KING, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Somerville, in the county of Tolland and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Double-Line Striper, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a new and improved form of double-line stripers for use more particularly by carriage painters for striping the wheels and bodies of carriages, automobiles, wagons, or in any other place where a double line is desired.

An object of my invention is to provide a double striper, the distance between the brushes of which may be varied at will.

I attain the above outlined object by disposing two brushes on a support, and by means of a rack and pinion movement, separate the brushes as desired.

With the above and other objects in view, as will more fully hereinafter appear, the present invention consists in certain novel details of construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View showing a preferred embodiment of my invention; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is an end view looking in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3, but with the tip plate removed to show the rack and pinion connection; and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the brushes detached from the rest of the device.

13 engaging the pinion 9, and extending from the outer edge of which and at right angles thereto, is a brush-carrying plate 14:, which plate has lugs 15 and 16 extending therefrom. The lug 16 attached'to the rack 13 fits into the groove 17 formed by the two spaced-apart plates 7 and 8. The lug 15 embraces both of the plates, thereby firmly bracing the brush-carrying plate on the holder 6. The rack is further braced in position by means of edge plates 18 extending on opposite edges and uniting the plates 7 and 8. The brush-carrying plate 14 has extending therefrom a bristle-carrying part 19, upon which are mounted the bristles or hairs 20, which bristles or hairs are removably aifixed to the part 19 by means of threads 21.

Many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof. It is intended that all matters contained herein in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings, shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense. It is also to be understood that the language used in the following claims is merely intended to cover all the generic and specific features of the invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of the invention, which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween, and that materials, sizes and relativities of parts are non-essential, except as called for in the claims.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent: 1. In a double-line striper, a holder hav ing a pinion therein, a pair of brushes slidably mounted upon said holder, each of said brushes having a rack carried thereby, said rack engaging said pinion by means whereby the rotation of said pinion will vary the distance between said brushes.

2. In a double striper, a holder comprising a pair of spaced-apart plates, a pinion mounted centrally between said plates, a shaft rigidly connected to said pinion, a knurled nut rigidly mounted on said shaft, said shaft extending through a handle rigidly aflixed to said plates, a pair of brush supports carried by said plates, said brush supports disposed on opposite sides of said pinion, a rack attached to each of said name to this specification in the presence of brush supports, said rack disposed between two subscribing witnesses. said plates and in mesh with said pinion on opposite sides thereof, and means on HOWVARD ERNEST KING said brush supports bracing the same on Witnesses:

\ WVILLIAM E. FRENCH,

said holder.

In testimony whereof I have signed my ANNIE M. FRENCH.

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